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3/20/2026 Natural Light: Orientation, Shadows and the Rhythm of the Day
Before choosing a colour or a piece of furniture, one question should guide every residential project: where does the sun come in, and at what times? The orientation of the building and its openings determines the quantity and quality of natural light more than any lamp. Yet in many projects we intervene afterwards — correcting with curtains, artificial light, air conditioning — instead of designing with the sun from the start.
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3/13/2026 The Sound of the House: Acoustics, Silence and Absorbing Materials
Interior design has long favoured sight: colours, shapes, surfaces. Only recently have we started to talk about touch and smell. Hearing, by contrast, remains the most neglected sense at the design stage — yet it's the one we can't switch off. We live in homes that boom, reverberate, carry voices and noise from one room to another. The result is stress, fatigue, difficulty concentrating and resting.
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3/06/2026 The House That Breathes: Seasonality and Natural Rhythms in Interiors
For decades interior design has chased the idea of a "perfect", unchanging space: same colours, same lights, same layout twelve months a year. The home as a photo set always ready, but often distant from the cycles that govern our body and our mood.Today a different idea is returning: the house as an organism that responds to the seasons. Not an aesthetic whim, but a response to the need to align the environments we live in with natural rhythms — light, temperature, colour, vegetation — with measurable benefits for sleep, concentration and wellbeing.March, with the equinox and the awakening of spring, is the ideal time to rethink interiors in a seasonal key.
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2/27/2026 Honest Materials: The Aesthetics of Truth (and the End of “Fake Luxury”)
For years, interior design has lived with a contradiction: an obsession with effect. Marble-effect. Wood-effect. Metal-effect. Stone-effect. A home that looks like something, rather than truly being something.
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2/20/2026 After White: The New Era of Shadows (and Imperfect Light)
For years, interior design chased a luminous ideal: bright spaces, white walls, clean surfaces, uniform light. The goal was clear — amplify, open up, “make it feel larger.” Light became synonymous with modernity. And white became its official language.
